By By Micheal Chukwuebuka
RESCUERS, on Tuesday, continued to search desperately for survivors amid the rubble of homes flattened by a powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, which has claimed more than 1,400 lives, according to a government spokesman.
Stonix News had earlier reported that the 6.0-magnitude quake struck remote, mountainous provinces near the border with Pakistan around midnight on Sunday, followed by at least five aftershocks.
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“Emergency operations continued throughout the night,” said Ehsanullah Ehsan, head of the Kunar Provincial Disaster Management Authority.
He added that many injured people in distant villages still needed evacuation to hospitals.
Villagers joined the rescue efforts, using their bare hands to dig through the debris of mud and stone houses built into steep valleys.
The dead, including children, were wrapped in white shrouds as relatives prayed over their bodies before burial. Some of the hardest-hit villages remain inaccessible due to blocked roads, the UN migration agency told our source.
Source: AFP
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